SCHOOL “HOWLERS.”

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 283, 11 April 1929, Page 8

SCHOOL “HOWLERS.”

THE LATEST COLLECTION. The London University Correspondent, in announcing the winner of its annual prize for the best collection of school “howlers,” gives .a selection from the entries received:— The chief work qf the British in Egypt since 1880 has been the extermination of the sphinxes. . Sir W. Scott was called the Blizzard of the North. He tried to reach the North Poles but died in the attempt. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”—Paraphrase: It is nice to hear music, but it is still nicer not to. Parliament assembled in November and dissembled in December. To collect the fumes of sulphur

hold a deacon over the end of the tube. What should the Lady of Shallott have done instead of lying down in the boat and wasting her life because Sir Lancelot took no notice of her?—She should have looked out for another. Correct the sentence: “It was me that has broken the window.”—“lt wasn’t me that has broken the window.” Ncitre vo’sin est morte d’une congestion pulmonaire.—Our neighbour died of a crush in a Pulman car. The imperfect tense is used in French to express a future action in past time which does not take place at all. Teacher (after a lesson on microbes): “Why, then, is it so essential to keep the house clean and tidy?”— “Because somebody we know might come in any time to see us.” A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending.